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| CES 2015: Crucial Intros MX200 and BX100 SSDs Posted: 11 Jan 2015 09:19 PM PST New SSDs start at $69.99There was no dearth of solid-state drive (SSD) announcements at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show. Of these, two were from Micron-owned memory and storage maker Crucial: the all-new BX100, aimed at the entry-level segment with the promise of "substantial yet affordable performance gains" over a hard drive, and the MX200, the successor to the generally well-received MX100. The MX200, for all intents and purposes, is the Crucial-branded consumer version of the M600 SSD that Micron announced in September for OEMs and system integrators. Like the M600, the MX200 has the company's Dynamic Write Acceleration (DWA) technology, which enables SSD's NAND array to switch from MLC mode to SLC mode, and back, on the fly. And it is this adaptive SLC cache technology that really sets the MX200 apart from its predecessor, the MX100. Otherwise, the two are pretty similar. The Crucial MX200, which will be available in 250GB ($140), 500GB ($250), and 1TB ($470) capacities, is capable of sequential reads and write up to 555MB/s and 500MB/s, respectively. Unlike the MX200, which pairs the Marvell 88SS9189 with Micron's 16nm 128Gbit NAND, the entry-level Crucial BX100 comes with the same NAND and a SM2246EN controller from Silicon Motion. In fact, the BX100, which delivers sequential reads of up to 535MB/s and and sequential writes of up to 450MB/s, is the first Crucial drive to use a Silicon Motion controller. It will be available in 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB flavors that will cost $69.99, According to the company, both the BX100 and the MX100 will be available sometime during the quarter from Crucial's website and select retailers across the globe. Follow Pulkit on Google+
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| Leaked Images of Windows 10’s Spartan Browser Show Minimalist Design Posted: 11 Jan 2015 05:13 PM PST Rumored features include digital inking support and tab groupingMicrosoft has a special press event scheduled for January 21, when it will finally turn the spotlight on Windows 10's consumer-specific features. Chances are Microsoft could end up formally announcing the new "Spartan" browser, which we first heard about late last month, at the upcoming event, though it's hard to say anything with certainty at this stage. Well, it may or may not figure on the upcoming company's agenda for the event, but Spartan has already gotten the tech media buzzing. Over the last couple of days, some fresh details have emerged, along with a couple of purportedly leaked screenshots, courtesy of Chinese site Cnbeta, that show a Chrome-like minimalist browser interface. The new browser, according to a recent The Verge report citing people close to the company's plans, will have a number of new features not currently found in competing browsers, including digital inking support that lets users add annotations to web pages using a stylus. What's more, multiple users will reportedly be able to share these annotations with each other using a OneDrive-powered note sharing service. Cortana integration and the ability to group browser tabs are some of the other key features that the browser is rumored to have.
You may have noticed that in the above screenshot the browser's tabs bar and the Windows taskbar are both dark. That is, per The Verge, part of a Microsoft plan to "build light and dark themes with color accents for Windows 10", à la Windows Phone. Image Credit: Cnbeta Follow Pulkit on Google+ |
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